Ashen God

Chapter 998: Life Span Increase


"If I convert my movement speed—after the blessing of spiritual energy—into meters, it has already reached 98.8 kilometers per second. I'm still 20.2 kilometers away from the small goal of 120 kilometers, getting closer and closer, and there's indeed hope to achieve it."

At the same time, Zhang Yanhang's hourly movement speed has also increased from the original 339,703 kilometers to 355,536 kilometers. This way, he only needs sixty-eight minutes to fly to the moon, meaning he's already very close to achieving the one-hour goal.

After sorting out the Swift Leggings, Zhang Yanhang started checking the inventory of the second type of leg-related equipment, which comes from the Demonized Swamp, known as the Demon Ape Leg Armor.

However, despite being from the Demonized Swamp, the Demon Ape Leg Armor is in the same awkward situation as the Swift Leggings in that it only starts at Blue Quality, and even if it is fused to +5, it can only be enhanced to Purple Quality and requires breaking through fusion limits to +6 in order to advance to Dark Purple Quality at Third Tier.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang can only use the Demon Ape Leg Armor up to Fifth Tier, and it will also be discarded after being promoted to Sixth Tier.

Although both are Blue Quality, unlike the Swift Leggings, Zhang Yanhang has a more considerable stock of Demon Ape Leg Armor. A rough glance suggests he possesses around two hundred pieces. However, since he doesn't need that many, Zhang Yanhang extracted 128 pieces to place into the Alchemy Array.

Of course, it's worth mentioning that after advancing his Alchemy, Zhang Yanhang discovered that the current Alchemy can fuse even more equipment simultaneously.

Initially, at the Third Tier, he could only fuse at most forty pieces at once. Later in the Fourth Tier, this number doubled to eighty. Now, with Fifth Tier Truth Alchemy, it has doubled again, allowing him to fuse up to 160 pieces simultaneously, thereby significantly increasing his fusion efficiency.

Although it's not particularly useful now, Zhang Yanhang believes that upon entering new areas to hunt monsters, the increased fusion efficiency will prove invaluable due to the substantial fusion demands.

After placing a sufficient number of Demon Ape Leg Armor pieces, Zhang Yanhang immediately activated the Alchemy Array. After five rounds of fusion, the 128 regular Demon Ape Leg Armor pieces successfully fused into four pieces of Demon Ape Leg Armor +5 of Purple Quality.

As for why Zhang Yanhang only fused Demon Ape Leg Armor +5 and didn't attempt to break through to Dark Purple Quality at +6?

The reason is he lacks the inventory. Fusing a Dark Purple Quality Demon Ape Leg Armor +6 requires eight pieces of Demon Ape Leg Armor +5, totaling 256 Demon Ape Leg Armor pieces. His current stock can only support making six Demon Ape Leg Armor +5.

Upon completing the fusion, Zhang Yanhang promptly opened the attribute list of the Demon Ape Leg Armor +5 for a glance.

[Demon Ape Leg Armor +5]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Main World, Greenland, Northern Plain, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 57/57]

[Defense Power: 39]

[Additional Attributes: Defense Power +12.5%.]

[Usage Requirements: Constitution 38 points.]

[Score: 150 (Purple item score ranges from 71 to 150.)]

[Introduction: My name is Azikasa Baofeng Saint Silvado, an unremarkable War Hero. After achieving great merit in the war against the Dwarves a thousand years ago, I have been comfortably drawing pension without any mental burden, leading a bland and boring retirement life since then...]

"Nothing has changed except the origin, but compared to the movement speed bonus from the Swift Leggings, the additional attributes of the Demon Ape Leg Armor aren't as useful to me because there's no shortage of defense bonus for me these days, and moreover, the defense bonus cannot benefit from the excess bonus increase.

Still, despite everything, at least it's some enhancement in defense, and it has its uses."

Zhang Yanhang can currently equip three pieces of max-scored Purple Quality Demon Ape Leg Armor +5, and each leg armor piece can provide a 12.5% defense power boost, so he can gain a total defense power boost of 37.5% this time. Although it's not much, it's still decent.

We can only say that Zhang Yanhang's expectations have been somewhat elevated by the XXX-level Talent Immortal Life, as the Immortal Life alone has increased his defense power by 1144%. Naturally, the defense increase from the Demon Ape Leg Armor seems less significant, given how the numbers are disproportionately large.

"Oh, wait... after increasing my Constitution attribute, I don't think I've had a chance to check the Talent Effect of Immortal Life. Logically, my maximum lifespan should have increased significantly again."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang immediately checked the Talent Effect of Immortal Life without delay.

[Immortal Life]

[Quality: XXX (0/177,147)]

[Ability One: Unwearied——Constitution +19.]

[Ability Two: Energetic——Physical Strength +760%.]

[Ability Three: Longevity——Life Span +500 years +20 years ×123 (+11)[Constitution]=2960 years (+220 years).]

[Ability Four: Source Flowing——When remaining life span exceeds 1000 years [currently 5940 years (+220 years)], increase by 5940 years (life span) ×0.2%=1188% (+44%) Attack Power, increase by 5940 years (life span) ×0.2%=1188% (+44%) Defense Power.]

[Ability Five: Heavenly Mandate——Luck +1, when remaining life span exceeds 10,000 years [currently 5940 years (+220 years)], gain an additional 1-point Luck for every 10,000 extra life span years, current extra Luck Value Bonus is [0].]

"Once my Constitution attribute increased to 23 points, Ability Three Longevity's conversion coefficient helped further extend my life span by 220 years, increasing my total life span from 5720 years to 5940 years.

Simultaneously, alongside the life span increase, the attack power bonus and defense power bonus increase from Ability Four Source Flowing has also grown from 1144% to 1188%, equivalent to an increase of 44% in bonus effects."

We can only say that Zhang Yanhang's lack of interest in the bonuses from the Demon Ape Leg Armor is well-founded because the Immortal Life's Talent Effect casually boosted the attribute value, increasing his defense by 44%, which is higher than the combined bonuses of three Demon Ape Leg Armor +5 pieces, making it indeed tough for Zhang Yanhang to appreciate the boost from Demon Ape Leg Armor +5.

Due to the excessively strong performance of Infinite Life Span, it can be said that just one Infinite Life Span already supplies more than ninety percent of Zhang Yanhang's attack bonuses and defense bonuses. Zhang Yanhang even feels that he won't need any equipment for attack bonuses or defense bonuses in the future, as Infinite Life Span alone is sufficient to meet all needs.

After a brief examination of the talent effect of Infinite Life Span, Zhang Yanhang did not forget his original task, so he quickly equipped the three Purple Quality full score Demon Ape Leg Armor +5 he had just fused onto the knees of his extra limbs.

Then Zhang Yanhang proceeded to sort out the third piece of leg equipment, which was also the last piece of leg equipment, namely the Demon Pig Leg Ring from the Demonized Swamp.

It can be said as the last piece of equipment, but in reality, Zhang Yanhang currently only has one Demon Pig Leg Ring, unable to equip any extra on other legs. After all, the Demon Pig Leg Armor was obtained from the Lord's Treasure Chest of the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen, so unless the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar Queen can refresh again, he probably won't use it in this lifetime.

Therefore, although there are three types of leg equipment, Zhang Yanhang can actually only use two types of equipment, and these two types of equipment are just Second-tier Purple Quality, which will immediately be obsolete after one tier.

But Zhang Yanhang had anticipated this situation because it has been a long time since he obtained any leg equipment. However, he believes there will be a greater possibility to acquire the urgently needed leg equipment when clearing new areas.

Of course, this doesn't mean Zhang Yanhang is filled with confidence regarding the new area, he is simply confident in Multiple Choice, as it has always adjusted the reward options to a certain extent based on his own needs.

Therefore, with the confidence of Multiple Choice, Zhang Yanhang believes that Multiple Choice would not ignore his bare thighs and give no equipment at all.

But that is something that can only be resolved when clearing new areas later on; for now, it is more important for Zhang Yanhang to fill out the missing equipment on his newly grown head.

Zhang Yanhang currently has six types of equipment for the head and neck: firstly, the virtually extinct Makarov set, or rather, due to sustained high Tier Penalty, has probably forever become unattainable, that is, those earrings.

Therefore, relying on the Makarov set is definitely out of the question; the usable equipment includes only the Crimson Iron Shark Teeth and the Crimson Iron Heart Necklace from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu.

Regrettably, however, both the Crimson Iron Shark Teeth and the Crimson Iron Heart Necklace, like the previous Swift Leggings and Demon Ape Leg Armor, are only Purple Quality even when fused to their limit and are soon to retire.

However, at least for now, they can still be used sparingly since Zhang Yanhang's Charm attribute has not yet reached the Five-Tier limit.

Unfortunately, even though Zhang Yanhang has compromised, his inventory doesn't even allow for a compromise.

Zhang Yanhang recently took stock of his inventory and found that his waist bag didn't even contain an extra pair of Crimson Iron Teeth. After all, during his last clearance of the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, he only managed to obtain a Treasure Box through the Lucky Slot Machine, and that newly acquired Crimson Iron Teeth are currently installed in his fourth head.

It's worth mentioning that due to the scarcity of Crimson Iron Teeth, besides his original head using the Purple Quality Crimson Iron Shark Teeth, the other three heads can only use completely unenhanced initial Blue Quality Crimson Iron Shark Teeth.

Therefore, of the three head equipment obtainable from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, the only truly usable item for Zhang Yanhang is the Crimson Iron Heart Necklace.

However, the number of Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces in his waist bag is just as scarce. Even after clearing the large Crimson Iron Ant Nest Talano and the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, his waist bag contains only three ordinary Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces and one Crimson Iron Heart Necklace +1.

From past experience, Zhang Yanhang knows that to upgrade a Crimson Iron Heart Necklace to Purple Quality, it must be fused to +3, requiring eight ordinary Crimson Iron Hearts. However, all of his extra necklaces only amount to five, leaving him short by three.

In this regard, Zhang Yanhang can only say the Tier Penalty increase has been excessively harsh, such that clearing the entire small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu yielded only three Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces, and the remaining Crimson Iron Heart Necklace +1 was from an earlier inventory.

"Alright, Blue it is, we'll have to make do."

Zhang Yanhang sighed silently, then picked up two ordinary Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces and one Crimson Iron Heart Necklace +1 and placed them into the Alchemy Array to begin fusion. Although they would only provide a point of charm attribute value bonus at Blue Quality, the additional resistance bonus justified the fusion.

In just a few seconds, Zhang Yanhang completed two rounds of fusion, successfully merging two ordinary Crimson Iron Heart Necklaces and one Crimson Iron Heart Necklace +1 into one Crimson Iron Heart Necklace +2.

After fusion, as a routine, Zhang Yanhang glanced at the attribute list of the Crimson Iron Heart Necklace +2.

[Crimson Iron Heart+2]

[Quality: Blue]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Main World, Greenland, Northern Plain, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Durability: 52/52]

[Defense: 34]

[Additional Attribute: Flame Resistance +6.6%.]

[Additional Attribute: Acid Resistance +6.6%.]

[Additional Attribute: Charm +1.]

[Usage Requirements: Charm 10 points.]

[Score: 68 (Blue item score is 31 to 70.)]

[Description: The Crimson Iron Equipment I sell is of good quality and price, renowned far and wide. As word of mouth spread among buyers, my reputation gradually grew. One day, a newly debuted Brave Apprentice found me, asking for the village's best sword, saying he couldn't afford it now but promising to repay a hundredfold once he becomes famous…]

This is perhaps the first time Zhang Yanhang checked the attribute list of a Crimson Iron Heart+2, as he usually fuses up to +3 before checking.

"As expected, a Crimson Iron Heart Necklace only fused to +2 is rather underwhelming. The equipment score remains at 68, just two points shy of the Blue Quality full score. Apparently, it indeed requires a fusion to +3 for an upgrade to Purple Quality."

However, considering that both Blue and Purple will be obsolete by the Sixth Tier, Zhang Yanhang realizes he likely won't have a chance for further upgrades.

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